The makers of Venice : doges, conquerors, painters and men of letters by Mrs. Oliphant ... With illustrations by R.R. Holmes, F.S.A.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs Frank Oliphant (1828 - 1897)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3193084
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,[ 2], 410 p., plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. (8vo). Pencil manuscript price: 28/-. Provenance: small book label, with armorial in left panel; with red inked cypher in right panel: VN&HN [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson (1892-1962) and Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)]. Endpaper inscribed: V.N. from "A.N. Christmas 1914" [i.e. from Arthur Nicolson, first Baron Carnock (1849–1928)]. Binding: twentieth-century half vellum, with purple cloth on boards; gold tooled spine; gold lettered leather spine label. Endpaper stamped: Truslove & Hanson, 6, Sloane St., S.W.
Makers and roles
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs Frank Oliphant (1828 - 1897) Sir Richard Rivington Holmes (London 1835 - London 1911)